Especialy since the cheap player does output 1080i (following the above link). Personally would not pay double to get the "p." There are hardly any 1080p movies out anyways, and I don't think the difference from 1080i would be noticeable. Paying double for a small degree of "future-proofing" is not a good value in my book.
It's probably a loss-leader, but I'm willing to bet the loss on each unit is less than on the leading Blu-Ray player. (Granted, that one is rumored to play video games as well, but it seems to have been an afterthought:)
Tell me the appeal of calamari? I like sushi, I like crab legs, I like shrimp because they all taste good. Calamari only tastes like whatever you fry or dip it in.
As a parallel thought, moral sets don't have to necessarily match up, else you get dogma.
I think morality is simply more all-inclusive than law - what you don't like, you consider immoral; things most people really don't like are illegal. I don't think morality and law are on different continua. Whether a moral precept becomes law is simply a matter of how broadly accepted it is.
I like the idea of 4 NIC's. For my home server box I could put my Cable Modem, internal lan, and wireless all on different subnets, heck I wouldn't even need a separate network switch any more. At the very least, I wish all motherboards would come with dual NICs to serve as simple routers without a PCI card.
even with all that bandwidth, wouldn't latency still be a significant problem when burning ISOs?
Optical burners aren't all that fast, so there's no problem putting a sufficient write buffer in main memory. Anyways, that assumes you would want to burn an iso in the first place. In a truly network-based system, I'd think the need for that is greatly reduced. There is the issue of important information like family photos, but centralized and managed storage would already be much more reliable than what most people are doing now.
With so much bandwidth, why "download" at all? (By download I mean copying data from a remote hard drive to your local hard drive). That's essentially using your hard drive as a cache, which doesn't make sense if your network is faster than your hard drive. You could use a dumb terminal - or even just a TV with the addition of controllers - even to play 3d video games.
I think a cool experimental linux distro would have a single master image sitting on a server somewhere. All "installations" of this distro would be images of that master, with components merely cached locally (due to today's slow net speeds) and updated automatically. The image would have every imaginable app installed, but only the parts you used recently would be using up space on your drive. Does this exist?
The guy is a marketing genius (OK, rather incredibly lucky). Youtube shows his ads to millions of people for free, even a few 30 second ads on local TV would quickly surpass $500. (Wait, did I just imply the $90BN ad industry is not a waste - or rather a menace?)
look at the difference between a fully assembled skyscraper and the dust cloud it generates when it collapses.
But how toxic is collapsed building dust, really? We've all seen many building demolitions where crowds stood near and cheered, and I never heard any uproar about "toxic dust" until after 911. When somebody comes forward and claims to be a victim of terrorist "toxic dust," it's pretty hard for the government or even the media to object - that'd sound like taking the terrorists' side! My guess is you'd have a hard time winning $2.5M for dust inhaled due to any other incident.
I doubt they could get good battery life for a phone in such a small device though.
I don't think we should waste any mental energy wondering what "Shuffle-ness in a cellphone" means. It's really just a branding gimmick, recycling a trademark, nothing more.
Nothing about net neutrality says you can't pay more to get more bandwidth. Nobody objects to that, and it's the only market dynamic necessary to drive growth of the Internet. In fact, net neutrality doesn't preclude burst-shaping bandwidth so that, among people paying equally, those who've used a lot of bandwidth recently get lower priority than those using it only sporadically. This is all very standard practice in CPU scheduling for the last 5 decades or so.
Yeah, my first response was, only twice the bandwidth? You could run a whole ISP with a lousy 1 mbit T1 10 years ago, how many times has it doubled since then? Clearly neutrality is a bargain!
20 mbit burst a big bonus for apps like google maps. At a hotel recently I noticed maps was awfully sluggish, but checked and realized I was pulling half a megabit, which used to be quite a bit of bandwidth! Even cnn's homepage is most of a megabyte. Man, the web has really gotten bloated. Any dial-uppers out there? How do you do it?
I'm on Comcast and dropped my home line for Vonage about two years ago, and in my case it works very well. I don't like Comcast's pricing, since Cable+Internet alone run $100/mo. Ouch. And sometimes I'd like a higher upstream bandwidth cap. But the fact is (for me) the high-speed internet works pretty darn well, both reliability and speed.
They keep talking about the long-term viability of the PS3, and I can see why since it is a pretty nice piece of hardware.
I'm not sure it's a great piece of gaming hardware. The blu-ray and Cell are indeed good, but the GPU is apparently not. And for a game box, that's pretty darn important.
Maths IS needed for computer science. Just be sure not to confuse Computer Science with Software Engineering.
I don't think that's what we're talking about. A more interesting question, I think, is whether "true AI," should it come to pass, will be derived from basic principles (i.e. math) or based on heuristics (i.e. not math). After laying the groundwork in the first few years of digital computers, the theory of computing has not progressed very much! There is no proof that encryption is secure. Quicksort, which is O(n^2), generally outperforms the O(nLog(n)) algorithms. There is still not even a proof that P != NP, even though it seems obvious. I think what has been proven is that most problem classes of interest are non-decidable and intractible. But so what? You can still get along quite well in the world without a provably optimal solution most choices. So now theory is concerned with deriving probabilistic bounds on accuracy and runtime for heuristic methods. I would call that nice to have, but is it necessary?
I mostly agree, but customers big enough to influece market dynamics, like Dell or the US Government, should think about how awful it's going to be buying a computer in a few years if AMD falls out of the race. Personally I'm a little worried about it.
Well, the next sentence in the article says they later changed the diameter before standardizing CDs. But the fact that later optical media have inherited the basic dimension of CDs has been helpful.
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Wow, they throw in free opportinuties of interest!? Now if only it were bundled with a two-year commitment to AT&T wireless...
Especialy since the cheap player does output 1080i (following the above link). Personally would not pay double to get the "p." There are hardly any 1080p movies out anyways, and I don't think the difference from 1080i would be noticeable. Paying double for a small degree of "future-proofing" is not a good value in my book.
It's probably a loss-leader, but I'm willing to bet the loss on each unit is less than on the leading Blu-Ray player. (Granted, that one is rumored to play video games as well, but it seems to have been an afterthought :)
Tell me the appeal of calamari? I like sushi, I like crab legs, I like shrimp because they all taste good. Calamari only tastes like whatever you fry or dip it in.
I like the idea of 4 NIC's. For my home server box I could put my Cable Modem, internal lan, and wireless all on different subnets, heck I wouldn't even need a separate network switch any more. At the very least, I wish all motherboards would come with dual NICs to serve as simple routers without a PCI card.
My daddy had a hit song on the radio, so I deserve to never work a day in my life!
Yup, "Linux" is a registered trademark, too. But you can still fork it, call it "Lindows" (oops, bad example but the point holds) and have at it.
I think a cool experimental linux distro would have a single master image sitting on a server somewhere. All "installations" of this distro would be images of that master, with components merely cached locally (due to today's slow net speeds) and updated automatically. The image would have every imaginable app installed, but only the parts you used recently would be using up space on your drive. Does this exist?
The guy is a marketing genius (OK, rather incredibly lucky). Youtube shows his ads to millions of people for free, even a few 30 second ads on local TV would quickly surpass $500. (Wait, did I just imply the $90BN ad industry is not a waste - or rather a menace?)
Nothing about net neutrality says you can't pay more to get more bandwidth. Nobody objects to that, and it's the only market dynamic necessary to drive growth of the Internet. In fact, net neutrality doesn't preclude burst-shaping bandwidth so that, among people paying equally, those who've used a lot of bandwidth recently get lower priority than those using it only sporadically. This is all very standard practice in CPU scheduling for the last 5 decades or so.
Yeah, my first response was, only twice the bandwidth? You could run a whole ISP with a lousy 1 mbit T1 10 years ago, how many times has it doubled since then? Clearly neutrality is a bargain!
20 mbit burst a big bonus for apps like google maps. At a hotel recently I noticed maps was awfully sluggish, but checked and realized I was pulling half a megabit, which used to be quite a bit of bandwidth! Even cnn's homepage is most of a megabyte. Man, the web has really gotten bloated. Any dial-uppers out there? How do you do it?
I wouldn't call atomic batteries "self-charging."
I mostly agree, but customers big enough to influece market dynamics, like Dell or the US Government, should think about how awful it's going to be buying a computer in a few years if AMD falls out of the race. Personally I'm a little worried about it.
Well, the next sentence in the article says they later changed the diameter before standardizing CDs. But the fact that later optical media have inherited the basic dimension of CDs has been helpful.